Do You Know the Secret?

“You do not need to make anything happen in your reality, nor do you have to wait for the universe to make it happen. All you have to do is align with the reality,like jumping into a parallel universe, where what you want has already been orchestrated.”
~Melody Fletcher

I read this quote on Melody’s blog recently. I had followed a link from one post to this one and it left me deeply impressed.

Later when I was in the waiting room of the ophthalmologist’s office I decided to experiment with the idea. I aligned with the reality where everything about the appointment was okay, where I felt really good. Then, minutes later, I experienced just that. Before I’d arrived at the office I had resigned myself to the fact that after I’d seen the ophthalmologist I’d have to make an appointment with the optometrist because I was likely going to need glasses. But no! The ophthalmologist said I didn’t need corrective lenses! This was an outcome even better than what I’d imagined!

I felt empowered by this experience and wanted to try again.

I was reaching for the phone to call my stylist to schedule a hair appointment. I wanted the appointment to occur within nine days, the closer to the ninth day the better but this was short notice and my stylist is always fully booked. So I aligned with the reality where he had a perfectly-timed cancellation It turned out he had just gotten two cancellations; one on the following night and another one – in eight days.

“Align with the reality…where what you want has already been orchestrated,” sounds very much like, “Act as if,” and this quote from the Bible, “Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.” This explains the power of setting an Intention.

As Melody suggests in the post it lines up neatly with quantum mechanics. We can call it “positive thinking” as introduced by Norman Vincent Peale or “the power of your subconscious mind” as explained so well by Dr Joseph Murphy. So many ways to convey a message (a secret?) which has been delivered for thousands of years!

And I’m just really getting it now! What fun!

Are you familiar with The Secret in any of its many forms, including the Law of Attraction that Melody writes so well about? Do you use it to deliberately manifest things in your life?

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LoriI love figuring it all out and finding I was wrong, changing my mind, learning that I can get excited again about something I thought I was moving away from; changing life-long habits. Mostly I love my husband and my children; watching us all grow through the changes of life, family reunions and celebrations with a good bottle of port and a shrimp ring.

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Most people look at me in disbelief when I tell them that I never really watched The Secret. I viewed a small segment of it.

My most recent deliberate manifestation: I recently attended a meeting where a prize valued at $4,000 would be awarded to one of the attendees. I decided that I wanted to be the prize winner; consequently, I declared that I was the winner, said a prayer about it, visualized the speaker announcing that I had won, and gave thanks for it. And I manifested it...I actually won the prize! I believe that there were approximately 1,000 attendees.

Good for you Lori. Life is made up of little moments of choice, we have a rich inner life that we can choose to partner with or just go along for the ride. Personally I think it's much more fun to choose a happy outcome, imagine how that feels and watch it unfold. Just as you did. The more the merrier. :-)

Hey Lori! Thanks so much for linking to my blog! I'm really honored. This ended up being one of my favorite blog posts of all time. You know, until I wrote it, I thought that the Schroedinger's Cat experiment was common knowledge. But when I went to explain what I was writing about, no one I asked about it had heard of it, lol. So, I like to think I spread a little physics with my LOA, ha, ha.

Though I'll be honest, I've never successfully concentrated enough to have the desired outcome, as clearly as you indicate.

I've often found people i love and care about focus on the negative, and then when it comes, they say 'well see I told you it was going to happen'. When in fact they don't realize that their negative energy and thoughts are helping to manifest everything.

Any suggestions on how to try to 'turn' people to see the power of positive thinking...because you see, even with the power of positive thinking, you TRULY have to believe...and that is difficult for some people.

I am a bit of a skeptic about "The Secret". Setting an intention is a good idea and so is having a positive attitude, but we generally need to take some action also. I also believe that God and other people impact our lives. I don't think there's a magic button that will get us what we want.

What is the reality ? Pilot said to Jesus what is truth ? The real question is what God are you bowing down to ? You do not have the power to create anything,at best you can rearrange what already exist . The ideas that pop into your head that you use to rearrange what already exist, where did they come from who or what put them their ? Almost everything we do requires co-operation of another person we can not all have our own way all at once. For me their is only one person that will get his own way , the God that created everything. For me truth is a Person named Jesus and when I align with that reality and pray his will in faith in any given situation, then the supernatural becomes natural otherwise, all I will end up doing is splitting and atom in two and nuking the world and call that creative. God only says no because he has a better yes, do you want to know what that is ?

@Rachel Lavern That's cool Rachel! That kind of luck runs in our family - my mom won so many things! If I "turn it on" I can win too - nearly at will. I've never won anything that large but I can remember the feeling of, "Yes, I'm going to win that." and winning.

I only remembered that recently. I'd forgotten about it. I know, why not buy a lottery ticket! Hmm...

So you didn't get caught up in Secret Mania? I first saw their excellent marketing campaign online. I have a copy here ;-)

@JodiAman Hi Jodi! Not sure what you mean. The secret/law of attraction works sometimes but not at others? I loved your post today (would you put your links in your Livefyre profile so people can follow you back to your blog? You can add them here: http://www.livefyre.com/profile/4078845/) How do you manifest things in your life?

According to the post I link to (you've got to read it for this all to make sense) you don't have to change people. You just align with the reality in which they are the way you want them to be. Melody can (and I hope will) correct me if I'm getting this wrong but though it may seem manipulative, I believe it's what we do all the time, albeit unconsciously. As you said, it is our [negative] energy and thoughts that are helping to manifest everything. And isn't it a relief to know we don't have to change anyone?!?!?!

@sdekins Hi Susan! Yes, we need to take action. Life is action and inaction if boredom at its worst. But what kind of action do you take? Do you take it in the physical or in your thoughts? I've had fun and am still having fun with this way to create my reality - or alter it - or choose a different one. I've only begun to explore.

I believe the people who impact our lives have been summoned - by us and that God gives us full reign to discover our power to manifest. But that's just the reality I'm choosing today ;-) Make sense? If we can choose to see it the way we want and then experience it the way we see it, then we all do get what we want, don't we? And if we're not getting what we want, we can change the idea, change the reality we've given power to.

@johncharlesowens Hi John! You don't believe we are creating the realities we experience? I believe this is the way a loving God makes it "fair" for all - that this IS free will. Yes, we can all have "our own way all at once" if there in fact are many realities co-existing with this one we are both in now.

I believe this IS the better yes God has for us. What do you see as the better yes?

@Lori@sdekinsI agree with what you are saying Lori. We have the power within to make choices, every day EVERY single 'action' out there is neutral. WE choose to make it positive or negative. Though had to believe with some very painful things, I believe that even our heartaches make us stronger, and perhaps we (as mere humans) simply can't see or comprehend if something may be 'better' than the way it appears at face value?

@StaceyMJCouturier@sdekins It's true - we can't always know what's best. As I was reading what you said I was thinking of things where I know I don't know the best outcome so I'm deciding that whatever outcome - er- comes ;-) I will deem it the best. It's a wonderful feeling of letting go. Some times IN-action is required and trust has to move in.

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